Savings-bank device



July. 28, 1925. I 1,547,742

C. FISHER SAVINGS BANK DEVICE Filed Oct. 25, 1923 Patented July 28, 1925.

oHAnLn-s FISHER, or

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOB TO THE AUTOJJEATIC RECORDING- SAFE COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

l SAVINGS-BANK DEVICE.

Application fil ed October 25, 1923. Serial No. 670,786,

To all whom it may, concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES Frsrrnn, a citizen of the United States, residing Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful. Improvements in Savings-Bank Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates particularly to the provision of an improved slot guard device for portable savings banks; and the primary object is to provide a device of this kind which is well adapted to its purpose, and which can be manufactured very cheaply and applied to the savings bank with great facility.

The invention is illustrated in its preferred embodiment in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 represents-a side elevat'ional view of a savings bank embodying the improvement, the closure of the bank being shown partially open; Fig. 2, a plan view, partly in sect-ion, the section being taken as indicated at line 2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a perspective view of the improved slot-guard; 4:, an enlarged broken sectional view taken as indicated at line 4 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 5, a perspective view of one of the members of the bracket which supports and affords guides for the plungers of the slot-guard de vice.

In the illustration given, the savings bank comprises a main casing-section A, which is formed to provide the top and side walls of the casing; and a bottom casingsection A. having a hinged portion A which serves as a closure. The bottom sec tion A is secured within the lower portion of the member A, and the closure A is equipped with a locking device A. The construction thus far described is a well known construction. One of the side walls of the member A is provided in its upper portion with a horizontally disposed coinslot B. This coin-slot is formed by shearing the metal of the casing along the top line of the slot and the end lines of the slot and bending the metal inwardly to afford an inclined lip or guide 1.

Mounted in the casing is the improved slot-guard deviceC. This comprises bracket members 2 and 3 so formed as to provide guides; and plungers l backed by springs 5.' The bracket member 2 comprises an at taching flange 2 an inwardly and up wardly extending wall 9) which forms a top wall for the plunger-guides, and an end wall or flange 2. The wall 2 is provided at suitable points with perforations 2 adapted to receive clenching lugs. The member 2 is preferably provided by stamping .a piece of sheet metal into suitable form. The attaching flange 2 is secured to the vertical wall of the casing A by means of rivets 2 The member 3 preferably comprises. a piece of sheet metal which is stamped into suitable form to provide curved guide por tions 3 and connecting webs 3 The end portions of the member form portions of the outer guides and afford flanges 3? which have projecting lugs 3 which serve as clenching lugs. The central web 8 is shown provided also with a clenching lug,

3 which is formed by shearing and punching the metal. In assembling the bracket members, the parts are brought together so that the web portions 3' and the edges of the flanges 3 will bear against the wall 2', the clenching lugs extending through the perforations 2 The clenching lugs are then clenched on the upper surface of the wall 2.

Before the flange 2 is riveted to the easing, the springs 5 and the plungers d are inserted in the guides. The bracket is so positioned that the outer ends of the plung ers will engage the upper surface of the inclined lip 1. The plungers may be addi tionally held in place by so locating the bracket that the upper portions of the outer ends of the plungers will engage the lip 6 of the casing which is at the upper side of the coin-slot and which projects slightly be=- low the plane of the wall 2 When a coin is introduced through the slot B, it rides over the inclined lip 1, and the plungers are forced inwardly by the coin. The guide portions 3 of the member 8 have their lower ends sheared along an oblique, as indicated at 3. That is, the plunger-guides are so sheared or cut away at their lower ends as to provide an upper guide for the coin-slot which is substantially horizontal, as shown in Fig. 4. I

The improved device is exceedingly simple, may be cheaply manufactured, and may be applied with great facility. I

The foregoing detailed description has been given for clearness of understanding only, and no unnecessary limitations should be understood therefrom, but the appended claims should be construed as broadly as permissible in view of the prior art.

Vhat I regard as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a savings bank, the combination of a casing provided in the upper portion of its vertical wall with a horizontalcoin-slot, and a slot-guard device comprising a pair oi bracket members, one of said members hav ing a flange attached to the casing wall above said slot and having an upwardly and inwardly extending wall, and the other of said members having a series of guide channels formed therein and being attached to said inclined wall, and spring pressed plungers mounted in said channels and having their outer ends presented at said coinslot.

2. In a savings bank, the combination of a casing provided in the upper portion of its vertical wall with a coinslot, and a slotguard device comprising a sheet metal bracket member having a flange secured to said vertical wall above the coin-slot and having an inclined wall extending from the lower portion of the attaching flange and having an end flange, a second bracket member having guide channels formed therein and having clenching lugs extending through perforations in the inclined wall of said first mentioned bracket member and clenched thereon, and spring pressed plungers mounted in said guide channels and having their outer ends presented said coinslot.

3. In a savings bank, the combination of. a casing having the upper portion of its vertical wall provided with a coin-slot and with a lip extending inwardly from the lower edge of said slot, and a slot-guard device comprising an upper bracket member secured to said vertical wall, and a lower bracket member secured to said upper bracket member, said members'being formed to provide V plunger-guides between them, and spring pressed plungers mounted in said guides and having their outer ends presented at said coin-slot and disposed above said lip.

4. In a savings bank, the combination of a casing having the upper portion of its vertical wall provided with a coin-slot and with an internal lip at the lower edge of said coin-slot, and a slot-guard-device comprising an upper bracket member having an attaching flange secured to said vertical wall, having an inclined wall provided with perforations and having a downturned end flange, a lower bracket member having guide channels formed therein and having clenching lugs extending through said perforations and clenched on the upper surface of said inclined wall, springs in said channels having their rear ends bearing against said downturned flange, and plungers backed by said springs and having their outer ends presented at said coin-slot and disposed over said lip.

CHARLES FISHER. 

